In a bid to provide an inclusive, responsive and citizen-centric administration, the State Government has decided to introduce the Result Framework Document (RFD) system in 17 infrastructure and social sector departments, said a senior officer in Department of Planning & Coordination.
Development Commissioner Injeti Srinivas, who as the Secretary of Housing & Urban Development Department earlier had implemented the RFD system in the urban sector, is now all set to scale up the pro-people concept in various departments.
With the nomination of the Department of Planning & Coordination (DoPC) as the Nodal Agency to steer the RFD process, Chief Secretary JK Mohapatra has asked the departments to go ahead with the process during the current year, said official sources.
The RFD system would be implemented in the Departments of Agriculture, Fisheries & ARD, Commerce & Transport, Housing & Urban Development, Energy, MSME, Rural Development, Works, Water Resources, School & Mass Education, Employment, Technical Education and Training, Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare, ST & SC Development, Panchayati Raj, Women & Child Development in the first phase, said the sources.
The Union Government introduced RFD in a phased manner in 2009-10 and later, at least 11 States have successfully implemented RFD for improving governance.
Meanwhile, the DoPC has approached the Performance Management Division (PMD) of the Union Cabinet Secretariat for providing necessary technical support to implement a State-level Performance Measurement & Evaluation System (PMES) through the RFD process, said a senior DoPC official.
The RFD process would kick-start from middle of this month (August) with an in-house presentation and later, a two-day workshop would be organised in collaboration with the Government of India during third week of August, said the sources.
A High Powered Committee (HPC) has been constituted under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary along with the Development Commissioner, KBK Chief Administrator KBK, Finance Secretary and two or three experts from various disciplines as its members.
The draft RFDs prepared by the departments would be scrutinised by the HPC, and after the endorsement of the HPC, finalisation of the RFD are to be approved by the Minister of the department concerned, which would be implemented later.
The RFD system seeks to address three basic questions: What are the department’s main objectives for the year, what actions are proposed to achieve the objectives, and how someone would know that by the end of the year these objectives would be fulfilled.
In this backdrop, the departments would work out their strategies on RFD and would be implementing it. At the end of the fiscal, the departments would review and prepare reports on their achievements against the agreed results in prescribed formats.
The reports would be finalised by May 1 each year, and after scrutiny by the HPC, the reports would be placed in the State Cabinet, which would review the performances, said an official.